Mitian

Mitian is a hypothetic language family proposed by Jörg Rhiemeier, consisting of Europic, Uralo-Siberian, Altaic and Kartvelian. Possible further members are Sumerian and Etruscan-Lemnian, but these languages are only poorly known and much is still controversial about them. Mitian is thus a subfamily of Nostratic. The name is derived from the characteristic shapes of the 1st and 2nd person pronouns which are mi and ti or similar. (The most likely Proto-Mitian forms are *'mi and *twi, based on evidence from Indo-European, which has *h₁me and *twe.)

Classification

Within Mitian, Europic, Uralo-Siberian and Altaic seem to form a closer group, for which many long-range comparatists use the term Eurasiatic, while Kartvelian appears to form an early divergent branch.

• Mitian

• Kartvelian
• Eurasiatic

• Europic

• Indo-European
• possibly further languages (Hesperic)

• Uralo-Siberian

• Uralic-Yukaghir

• Uralic
• Yukaghir

• Beringian

• Chuktoko-Kamchatkan
• Eskimo-Aleut

• Altaic

• Turkic
• Mongolic
• Tungusic